PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES WYCHE FOWLER, JR. AS
U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA

President Clinton today announced his intent to nominate
Wyche Fowler, Jr. of Georgia, to be U.S. Ambassador to the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He will succeed Raymond Edwin Mabus,
Jr.

Until January 1, 1996, Wyche Fowler was a partner in the law
firm of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy. He now practices law
in Atlanta, Georgia and Washington, D.C., where he and his wife
reside.

Mr. Fowler served for 16 years in the United States
Congress. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, he served as
Assistant Floor Leader, helping mold a bipartisan consensus for
major public policy issues. He was a member of the Senate
Appropriations, Budget, Energy and Agriculture Committees. First
elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1977, he was a
member of the Ways and Means and Foreign Affairs Committees, the
Select Committee on Intelligence and the Congressional Arts
Caucus.

Before his election to Congress, Mr. Fowler practiced law in
Atlanta for eight years and was elected at age 29 to the Atlanta
City Council. He was selected president of the Council four
years later and served in that capacity until 1977.

Born on October 6, 1940, in Atlanta, Georgia, Mr. Fowler
received a B.A. in English and philosophy from Davidson College
in 1962 and a J.D. from Emory University in 1969. He holds
honorary degrees from Hofstra University, Davidson and Morris
Brown College. He is married to the former Donna Hulsizer of
Poughkeepsie, New York and he has one grown daughter.